Synodic month length 29.73 days

Length of current 903 lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 30 minutes. It is 1 hour and 5 minutes shorter than next lunation 904 length.

Lunation length longer than mean

Length of current synodic month is 4 hours and 46 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 2 hours and 17 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.

Lunar orbit position on 12 January 2073 Thursday 12:00 UTC

True anomaly ∠105.7°

This New Moon true anomaly is ∠105.7°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠140.9°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).

Moon before apogee

14 days after point of perigee on 29 December 2072 at 06:59 in ♍ Virgo. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next day, until it get to the point of next apogee on 14 January 2073 at 02:24 in ♓ Pisces.

Distance to Moon 404 621 km

Moon is 404 621 km(251 420 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next day until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 404 891 km(251 588 mi).

Moon after descending node

1 day after its descending node on 11 January 2073 at 18:17 in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 13 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 25 January 2073 at 14:53 in ♌ Leo.

Draconic month

Moon after southern standstill

5 days after previous South standstill on 7 January 2073 at 10:43 in ♑ Capricorn, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-19.079°. Next 9 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠19.043° in the next northern standstill on 21 January 2073 at 22:36 in ♋ Cancer.